* Albert I, Duke of Prussia ( 1490 – 1568 ), first Duke of Prussia

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.

* Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, Voivode of Moldavia ( 1552 – 1561 and 1564 – 1568 )

* 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain ( d. 1568 )

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

* 1568 – Juan Bautista Comes, Spanish composer ( d. 1643 )

* 1568 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( d. 1625 )

# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.

The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg | Ludwig Herzog von Württemberg ( ruled 1568 – 1593 )

* 1525 – 1568: Albert I

* 1568 – 1618: Albert II Frederick co-inheritor ( son of )

* 1568 – 1571: Joachim I / II Hector co-inheritor ( also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman ( b. 1522 )

* 1625 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( b. 1568 )

* 1490 – Albert, Duke of Prussia ( d. 1568 )

* 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( d. 1568 )

* 1568 – Eighty Years ' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.

# Sophie ( 6 June 1568 – 7 December 1622 ), married in 1582 to Elector Christian I of Saxony

* 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.

* 1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

His Edict of Turda was the first decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe ( 1568 ).

The Unitarian Church in Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the Transylvanian Diet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya ( January 1568 ), and was first led by Ferenc Dávid ( a former Calvinist bishop, who had begun preaching the new doctrine in 1566 ).

In 1568, King John II Sigismund of Hungary, encouraged by his Unitarian Minister Francis David ( Dávid Ferenc ), issued the Edict of Torda decreeing religious toleration.

On September 23, 1568, her teenage son, King Charles IX, issued the Edict of Saint-Maur, which prohibited all religions but Catholicism.

John issued the Edict of Torda, the first broad decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe ( 1568 ), and supported the establishment of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania.

* Edict of Torda ( 1568 )

In 1568, the Transylvanian Diet at Torda decreed the free worship of these four " received denominations ", but Orthodoxy still continued to be only tolerated.

János Zsigmond Zápolya, adopting his court preacher's views, issued ( 1568 ) an edict of religious liberty at the Torda Diet, which allowed Dávid ( retaining his existing title ) to transfer his episcopate from the Calvinists to the Nontrinitarians, Kolozsvár being evacuated by all but his followers.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

The Council entrusted to the Pope the implementation of its work ; as a result, Pope Pius IV issued the Tridentine Creed in 1565 ; and Pope Pius V issued in 1566 the Roman Catechism, in 1568 a revised Roman Breviary, and in 1570 a revised Roman Missal, thus standardizing what since the 20th century has been called the Tridentine Mass ( from the city's Latin name Tridentum ), and Pope Clement VIII issued in 1592 a revised edition of the Vulgate.

The Index librorum prohibitorum was announced 1564 and the following books were issued with the papal imprimatur: the Profession of the Tridentine Faith and the Tridentine Catechism ( 1566 ), the Breviary ( 1568 ), the Missal ( 1570 ) and the Vulgate ( 1590 and then 1592 ).

Pope Urban VIII ( baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644 ), born Maffeo Barberini, was pope from 1623 to 1644.

The English word love for the third and greatest of the virtues, ( agapē ), was used by all of the English translators of the Bible in the 16th Century, including Tyndale ( 1534 ), the Bishops ' Bible ( 1568 ) and the Geneva Bible ( 1560 ).

* Tommaso Campanella ( 1568 – 1639 ), Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet

* Honoré d ' Urfé of France ( 1568 – 1625 ), writer

* Wei Zhongxian of China ( 1568 – 1627 ), Eunuch

* Sir Henry Wotton of England ( 1568 – 1639 ), author and diplomat

** William Couper ( bishop ), Scottish bishop ( b. 1568 )

The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( 1545 – 1568 ), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.

William Turner mentions horseradish as Red Cole in his " Herbal " ( 1551 – 1568 ), but not as a condiment.

* Anna Phersönernas moder ( died 1568 ), Swedish alleged witch

The erudite Italian Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio ( 1529 – 1568 ), in his Epitome pontificum Romanorum ( Venice, 1557 ), attributes to him the introduction of the custom of ringing bells at the canonical hours and the celebration of the Eucharist.

* Richard Smith ( bishop ) ( 1568 – 1655 ), English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor

After Erik's successor John III of Sweden refused to accept a peace favoring Denmark in the Treaties of Roskilde ( 1568 ), the war dragged on until it was ended by a status quo peace in the Treaty of Stettin ( 1570 ) that let Denmark save face but also showed the limits of Danish military power.